Cialdini raamat
Furthermore, some members
of each group received services (such as counseling, training, etc.) designed to rehabilitate them to
society. One year after the inmates had been released from jail, a check of the records revealed that
(except for heroin addicts) criminals given the cosmetic surgery were significantly less likely to have
returned to jail. The most interesting feature of this finding was that it was equally true for those in-
mates who had not received the traditional rehabilitative services and for those who had. Apparently,
some criminologists then argued that when it comes to ugly inmates, prisons would be better off to
abandon the costly rehabilitation services they typically provide and offer plastic surgery instead; the
surgery seems to be at least as effective and decidedly less expensive.
The importance of the Pennsylvania data (Stewart, 1980) is that it suggests that the argument for
surgery as a means of rehabilitation may be faulty
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